unpicturesque
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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He was born in unpicturesque Paisley, and brought up on its most notorious housing estate, Ferguslie Park – "Feegie" or "the Jungle".
From The Guardian ● Aug. 17, 2011
On those occasions when the author is laughing at the South, she is casual, succinct and totally unpicturesque.
From Time Magazine Archive
The audience gulped down the plot as conventional but reliable stuff, watched with waning interest while spinning, swerving, dodging planes grew into confused monotony against a background of unpicturesque ether.
From Time Magazine Archive
The place has been overtaken by none of that unpicturesque commercial prosperity which further up the frontier threatens to destroy all the natural beauties of the river-banks.
From The Niagara River by Hulbert, Archer Butler
The scene then going forward was one of unusual and not unpicturesque confusion.
From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) by Lever, Charles James
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